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...government spends 30% of the entire national budget on the program of low prices, which has also badly distorted the whole economy. Bread, for example, costs only 10 a loaf and so farmers also use it as a cheap animal feed...
...impossible to buy a loaf of bread in Hanover, N.H., this morning. The barber shop and the drug store are closed. Every man, woman and college student in that sickeningly quaint little hamlet has packed his sleeping bag, liter of vodka and can of green spray paint, bundled into his green down jacket and headed south to (and, oh, how I hate this) "Hahvahd" for a weekend of merriment...
...events to small, discrete moments. He uses words less to evoke a scene than to catalogue it: "The sun was beaming through the pantry window into the kitchen; there was a block of yellow light on the wall above the table, set for supper with mismatched plates, glasses, a loaf of bread and a carton of milk. It was five-thirty...
...meat-price hike that had led to prolonged unrest last year, and the subsequent birth of Solidarity, it was conceivable that the new increases would trigger protests. In fact there were none-perhaps because the public realized that bread prices had been unrealistically low. At 120 a loaf, bread had actually been cheaper than the grain used to make it. As a result, whenever they could do so, farmers bought bread by the truckload and fed it to their pigs and chickens. So most people accepted the new prices (28? for an ordinary loaf) with barely a shrug...
...coaching to advising Scriptwriter Steve Tesich (Breaking Away) how to make Williams a convincing literary hero. Irving also appears briefly in the movie as the referee peering intently into knots of arms and legs. In addition, he is currently finishing two weeks of teaching and readings at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in Middlebury, Vt., appearing with such